I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

Do your best when no one is looking.